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Pick some old-skool versus classic; for example, SUPER STREET FIGHTER II, or THE KING OF FIGHTERS 99. Have no mercy, kick your significant other's arse! It is a great way to show your affection! Of course, this is assuming both are hardcore gamers, so neither will win all the time. This way, you will respect each other more... and want to kick each other's arse more frequently, which means more gaming!

* BLAST OFF THE BYRDO EMPIRE, OR SOMETHING

No question about it, get a shmup - IKARUGA is just perfect - and, again, play as well as humanly possible. Again, assuming neither is a game n00b. If you two can play IKARUGA together and one-credit it on hard mode, that means you are the ultimate hardcore gaming couple: go get married, you were obviously born to each other!

you know, that's probably one of the best dorky games ideas yet. i know when my wife was introduced to bejewled, i couldn't pry her away from it for quite some time.... that and mahjong.

game developers should really think about this at some point. she really likes games that scale up the difficulty slowly, reward often, and don't require reflexes (ie, the turns aren't timed). if they could rewrap a war game like axis and allies into something that wasn't a quest for world domination, she'd be all over it.

Just be careful not to let it get too competitive. You don't need high tension and flaring tempers if one of you does significantly better than the other. Remember, it's all a game, it's all for fun, and you care about each other, not about upstaging each other.